Negative calorie foods

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  • WaterBunnie
    WaterBunnie Posts: 1,371 Member
    Why do people join up to one way of losing weight and then spend all their time trying to change the goal posts? Just log the food and log your exercise and the site does the rest for you.

    Negative calorie theory is for the faddy diets of women's magazines not for serious weight loss programs.

    Eat it - Log it - Simple!
  • bwallace2012
    bwallace2012 Posts: 37 Member
    Water would be the only zero calorie food I can think of other than diet sodas.


    NO DIET SODAS! bad stuff. look at the ingredients, and if you can't pronounce 'em, don't eat 'em.
  • phynyxfyre
    phynyxfyre Posts: 145 Member
    Mayo clinic website says research is inconclusive or incomplete. Snopes.com lists only celery and also points out that the act of digesting the celery, not the chewing is what may give you less than 1 negative calorie back per 8 inch stalk consumed. So, yes "negative calorie food" does exist, but that really isn't going to help your waistline much.
  • RunIntheMud
    RunIntheMud Posts: 2,645 Member
    I don't log vegetables because my goal is to eat MORE vegetables. I don't ever want to have the thougt "If I skip my salad, I can have an extra cookie." So I eat all the vegies I can get down.

    But, perhaps if you properly logged your veggies, you'd realize you had enough calories left to eat a cookie once in awhile without shame. Everything in moderation.
  • SRH7
    SRH7 Posts: 2,037 Member
    Why do people join up to one way of losing weight and then spend all their time trying to change the goal posts? Just log the food and log your exercise and the site does the rest for you.

    Negative calorie theory is for the faddy diets of women's magazines not for serious weight loss programs.

    Eat it - Log it - Simple!

    QTF
  • Nikki_42
    Nikki_42 Posts: 298 Member
    I log everything I eat. EVERYTHING. Even if I taste my MIL soup or something, I log it. Keeps me honest.


    I log everything too... but someone mentioned it wasn't worth to log zero negative...so i'm curious

    It's worth it, because that's how little stuff and being undisciplined can start. It's starts with that and then goes to "oh I won't log this one bite..." then it goes to "oh I won't log this one small piece", and soon you're screwing up your logging.

    Trust me, been there, done that. You should log everything, even your cheat days when you don't care what you eat.
  • morgansmom02
    morgansmom02 Posts: 1,131 Member
    Now I remember why I don't come to these boards.
  • rciszek
    rciszek Posts: 134
    Do you log WATER??? And where are these miracle "no calorie" foods other than water?? There ain't any!!!!
  • Hellbent_Heidi
    Hellbent_Heidi Posts: 3,669 Member
    Now I remember why I don't come to these boards.
    yet, here you are :laugh:
  • rciszek
    rciszek Posts: 134
    I have never heard of such foods. What are they? Can they be found on this planet? I will eat them all day long, since all the food I log adds calories to my diary, not subtracts them!


    i've looked into it..read quite a bit about it.
    seems to exist :smile:

    Uhhhhhh, no....there ain't no zero calorie foods, no matter how to work the spin.
  • ceh5200
    ceh5200 Posts: 12 Member
    There is no such thing as a negative calorie food. Food has calories, even if they are very few.

    I think she means things like celery, you burn more calories chewing celery than there are calories in celery, it's 99% water
  • HardRockCamaro
    HardRockCamaro Posts: 147
    Although water is zero cal, I log it just to track if I am drinking enough of it.

    Despite being on around 1700cals per day I still log a small side salad or the small amount of semi skimmed milk in my coffee.
    It takes seconds to do.

    If the celery deal is true the numbers on thus supposed cal benefit to you are so small as to not count it.

    Log everything to be disciplined, but don't go looking for 1 calorie of saving here and there, otherwise you'll be subtracting a few off the cookie you ate as you dropped a few crumbs...
  • trackercasey76
    trackercasey76 Posts: 781 Member
    Okay, I literally laughed at loud! I'm so happy someone else caught the dandelion on that list of ridiculousness! Thanks for the laugh today!

    Dandelion greens are DELICIOUS!!!! and eaten VERY commonly also dandelion wine is supposed to be quite good.
  • Toumani
    Toumani Posts: 78 Member
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  • a_mandolin_
    a_mandolin_ Posts: 336 Member
    Okay, I literally laughed at loud! I'm so happy someone else caught the dandelion on that list of ridiculousness! Thanks for the laugh today!

    Dandelion greens are DELICIOUS!!!! and eaten VERY commonly also dandelion wine supposed to be quite good.

    I'm sold! If they can make it into alcohol, I'll try it!
  • PaleoPath4Lyfe
    PaleoPath4Lyfe Posts: 3,161 Member
    I'm curious...do you log zero calorie foods in your diary? Are we supposed to?

    Yep, I log my water intake as that is the only 0 calorie "food"
  • spud_chick
    spud_chick Posts: 2,640 Member
    I log everything, except for black coffee.

    Same here, and unsweetened tea..
  • spud_chick
    spud_chick Posts: 2,640 Member
    I tried to cut a mango once. I am certain I burned at least 130 calories in stomping around the kitchen, angrily cursing at it and eventually just brutally stabbing it over and over.

    This reminds me of when I was a teenager and someone brought an unshelled coconut to our house from their vacation trip--not a small fuzzy coconut, but the whole thing as if falls off the tree, which must be a leading cause of death in many modern tropical countries as well as old Saturday morning cartoons. Without the benefit of proper tools (it was just me and my mother, who did not believe in DIY), I rode/chased that monkey across the kitchen floor for two days, giving it no more damage in the end than a seriously inelegant lobotomy with a phillips head screwdriver and a hammer. I seem to recall balancing the gouged out hole over a glass only to get about two ounces of fluid out, and being so mad I just let my mother have it all to drink.

    There is no moral to this story, apart from knowing when to give up in the face of diminishing returns.
  • dispatchbug
    dispatchbug Posts: 12 Member
    I log foods as the calories in them, I do not consider how many calories it takes to digest the food. If it takes more to digest then it will help ensure weight loss if I log everything as a positive calorie as I will eat less of other foods.
  • Alatariel75
    Alatariel75 Posts: 18,342 Member
    I tried to cut a mango once. I am certain I burned at least 130 calories in stomping around the kitchen, angrily cursing at it and eventually just brutally stabbing it over and over.

    This reminds me of when I was a teenager and someone brought an unshelled coconut to our house from their vacation trip--not a small fuzzy coconut, but the whole thing as if falls off the tree, which must be a leading cause of death in many modern tropical countries as well as old Saturday morning cartoons. Without the benefit of proper tools (it was just me and my mother, who did not believe in DIY), I rode/chased that monkey across the kitchen floor for two days, giving it no more damage in the end than a seriously inelegant lobotomy with a phillips head screwdriver and a hammer. I seem to recall balancing the gouged out hole over a glass only to get about two ounces of fluid out, and being so mad I just let my mother have it all to drink.

    There is no moral to this story, apart from knowing when to give up in the face of diminishing returns.

    This.
  • AnvilHead
    AnvilHead Posts: 18,343 Member
    I think she means things like celery, you burn more calories chewing celery than there are calories in celery, it's 99% water
    No.
  • kaylinn9
    kaylinn9 Posts: 112
    I eat mustard everyday but I don't log it because it has 0 calories.

    It's up to your discretion, but I think that if you log 0 calories, you'd still get some sodium into your system. If you wanna keep track of your sodium intake, you should definitely log everything. You don't have to eat it back.
  • dangerxbadger
    dangerxbadger Posts: 396 Member
    Why do you people hate science?

    Calories! How do they work?!

    Hahahahah
    Yay.
  • dangerxbadger
    dangerxbadger Posts: 396 Member
    There is no such thing as a negative calorie food. Food has calories, even if they are very few.

    I think she means things like celery, you burn more calories chewing celery than there are calories in celery, it's 99% water

    And that other 1% has calories in it.
  • Sharkington
    Sharkington Posts: 485
    I log everything.
  • Hbazzell
    Hbazzell Posts: 899 Member
    I dont log tea. I make it loose leaf, 0 everything. I log it as water
  • trollsb
    trollsb Posts: 35 Member
    NO DIET SODAS! bad stuff. look at the ingredients, and if you can't pronounce 'em, don't eat 'em.

    I can pronounce all the chemical names without any dramas at all....university chemistry FTW
    yes! while you are logging cleaning, food prep and sex, you can add chewing too!!!

    I do! If the cleaning breaks a sweat, when the food prep is several hours doing butchery or making pastry or pasta and kneading by hand, sex when it's for work - it's like doing squats and or yoga for a few hours and chewing all day totally counts it has helped tighten up my lower face for starters!
  • Joluru
    Joluru Posts: 89 Member
    yes! while you are logging cleaning, food prep and sex, you can add chewing too!!!

    Wait, you can count cleaning, food prep, and sex as exercise? Really? I had no idea and haven't added those; they're just LIFE to me, not exercise. All those uneaten exercise calories...
  • Joluru
    Joluru Posts: 89 Member

    I do! If the cleaning breaks a sweat, when the food prep is several hours doing butchery or making pastry or pasta and kneading by hand, sex when it's for work - it's like doing squats and or yoga for a few hours and chewing all day totally counts it has helped tighten up my lower face for starters!

    You're having sex for work?
  • Alatariel75
    Alatariel75 Posts: 18,342 Member

    I do! If the cleaning breaks a sweat, when the food prep is several hours doing butchery or making pastry or pasta and kneading by hand, sex when it's for work - it's like doing squats and or yoga for a few hours and chewing all day totally counts it has helped tighten up my lower face for starters!

    You're having sex for work?

    Sex doesn't count when it's just for fun!

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